Lee Moody
Senior Fullstack Engineer at Front End North
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Moody is a Senior Fullstack Engineer with over a decade of experience designing accessible, user-focused web systems across startups, media, and mission-driven organisations. He balances hands-on front-end and back-end work—HTML/CSS/JS/React, Storybook, Node/Postgres and CI—while leading teams and shaping design-system architecture at scale. At the Financial Times he grew a multidisciplinary design-engineering team, set technical direction for component tooling and backend services, and managed delivery and mentorship for engineers. He contributes to open-source polyfill tooling, improving accessibility and API docs, showing attention to interoperability and real-world browser behavior. Now based in Sheffield, he’s applying his technical depth to sustainable food and agriculture systems at Soil Association Exchange, reflecting a pragmatic interest in how technology serves purpose-driven sectors. Colleagues describe him as a leader who prefers being dispensable—building teams that can thrive without him.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Web Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Web Technology at University of Lincoln
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
polyfills10
apidoc9
api9
html9
accessibility8
documentation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service
Mar 2019 - May 2020
Automatic polyfill service.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 15 reviews, 15 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Lee primarily focused on improving the website's front-end and API documentation. They updated the polyfill page by refactoring the HTML and applying accessibility improvements. Additionally, they updated the API documentation with a description of the available parameters. Furthermore, the user upgraded the polyfill library and fixed syntax issues, demonstrating contributions that span front-end, backend, and configuration aspects of the project.
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Financial-Times/o-buttons
Aug 2017 - Nov 2020
Standard FT-branded buttons
Contributions:34 releases, 1 review, 140 commits in 3 years 3 months
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